Stormy Weather

[Anna]

Belated thanks to vints for that Wordsworth - something magical about climbing up out of mist into the clear blue yonder and thinking you're sitting on top of the world.

Lovely day today in the Pennines - silver-grey cloud, but bright and clear.

Horrid day here, grey, dull, cloudbase right down to 1400ft. Not cold I suppose at 8° but not inviting, good on you ferney to get gardening done, I achieved loads last Sunday, but it was so warm and sunny.
Thursday night was really wild and wet, Friday morning was torrential rain and it's the first there's been rain for so long everyone was saying "Oh, I've forgotten what rain's like - it's so wet isn't it!!"

[BBMmk2]

Lovely photos Anna. A lovely springish day today Went out for a little stroll this afternoon.

[Serial_Apologist]

Though the temperature here peaked at 9 C, there was warmth enough in the sun not to have really needed a coat for my afternoon walk. The parks were full of happy couples and families, all chatting away in... Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Italian, French, Swahili, even the ocasional sarf Lunnunn, nar mean?............


Oh yes - and the first daffs are out in London - ahead of the crocus!

[BBMmk2]

SA, inversion fog? That's a new term to me.

Normal fog here today, but turned into a mixed bag of overcast and sun.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

SA, inversion fog? That's a new term to me.

Wait'll he gets started on Retrograde and Complementary-by-Hexachord Fog!

[BBMmk2]

Wait'll he gets started on Retrograde and Complementary-by-Hexachord Fog!

[Serial_Apologist]

Inversion simply means reversal of the usual situation of temperatures falling with height. As the sun sets, air at ground level cools faster than above, until the dewpoint is reached, at which point moisture in the atmosphere condenses into fog, gradually thickening and rising as the necessary dewpoint also rises. For obvious reasons, this is commonest in valleys.

The other kind of fog, advection fog, is when warm air blows across a colder surface, and is common over thawing snow.

[BBMmk2]

Inversion simply means reversal of the usual situation of temperatures falling with height. As the sun sets, air at ground level cools faster than above, until the dewpoint is reached, at which point moisture in the atmosphere condenses into fog, gradually thickening and rising as the necessary dewpoint also rises. For obvious reasons, this is commonest in valleys.

The other kind of fog, advection fog, is when warm air blows across a colder surface, and is common over thawing snow.

Ok Prof! :)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wet wet and wetter and colder ... what a miserable day in the middle kingdom

[marthe]

Brrr...a bit on the cool side here in snowy Newport. Minus 2 F last night has left us with a couple of frozen pipes. We had another 4-6 inches of fine, dry, powder snow yesterday. It's been sunny and cold today with more snow coming our way tomorrow. The sky is already clouding over as I type.

[Serial_Apologist]

Brrr...a bit on the cool side here in snowy Newport. Minus 2 F last night has left us with a couple of frozen pipes. We had another 4-6 inches of fine, dry, powder snow yesterday. It's been sunny and cold today with more snow coming our way tomorrow. The sky is already clouding over as I type.

Have been tracking your weather since Christmas, marthe; can't say I envy you! If anything you appear to be experiencing an even worse winter than last year's. Ours has been pretty benign thus far, apart from in Scotland, where they've had very strong winds from time to time.

[eighthobstruction]

ah the joys of fracking....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31498323

[Nick Armstrong]

Stunning day in London today - cloudless sky after dark grey clouds and rain all day yesterday... warm sunshine, no wind.... and the crocuses and ...ahem... snowdrops have all burst out. Real spring feeling!

[Anna]

Oh yes - and the first daffs are out in London - ahead of the crocus!

Just the one daff here but a lovely clump of primroses espied this morning in full flower on a sheltered bank! And what a beautiful morning, thick frost sparkling, slight low lying mist curling up from the river, but bright blue skies and warm sunshine (alas very cloudy now) but last night - after a very mixed day such a clear sky and the stars were wonderfully bright.
I see there have been dire weather warnings of gales and cold from the usual tabloids, but we are in for a change I think with more unsettled, wet and windy.

[marthe]

Have been tracking your weather since Christmas, marthe; can't say I envy you! If anything you appear to be experiencing an even worse winter than last year's. Ours has been pretty benign thus far, apart from in Scotland, where they've had very strong winds from time to time.

It's snowing again today. Fortunately it's cold-weather snow of the fine, light, dry variety which is so much easier to shovel. Yesterday, one of our frozen pipes burst making an awful mess and leaving one bathroom out of commission until we can get the pipe fixed. We'll have to take our place in the queue as the plumbers are working overtime seeing to burst pipes (and charging accordingly!)

I see mention of snowdrops and daffs. it will be quite some time before we see anything in bloom.